A tanker is expected to dock and load crude from the Libyan
oil export terminal Hariga that has been shut for much of the
past two months, according to a state company official and ship
tracking data.

North Sea

Mercuria sold cargo F1119 for Nov. 29 to Dec. 1 loading to
Royal Dutch Shell Plc at parity to Dated Brent, a Bloomberg
survey of traders and brokers monitoring the Platts pricing
window showed. The consignment was originally scheduled to load
Nov. 27 to Nov. 29, according to the initial Forties loading
program seen by Bloomberg News. The trade is 9 cents higher than
the last trade done on Nov. 7 between BP Plc and Shell.

Mercuria didn’t manage to sell a Nov. 29 to Dec. 1 cargo of
Ekofisk crude at $1.30 a barrel more than the benchmark, the
survey showed. The grade was last offered on Nov. 7 at plus 80
cents and plus $1.05.

Brent for December settlement traded at $105.93 a barrel on
the ICE Futures Europe exchange at the close of the window,
compared with $104.44 in the previous session. The January
contract was at $105.77, a discount of 16 cents to December.

Urals/Mediterranean

Lukoil didn’t manage to buy 80,000 metric tons of Urals for
Nov. 22 to Nov. 26 loading at a discount of 5 cents a barrel to
Dated Brent on a delivered basis to Rotterdam, the survey
showed. The company bid for the grade on Nov. 7 at Dated Brent
plus 25 cents, the highest bid since July 24.

Hellenic Petroleum bought 80,000 tons of the crude from
Glencore Xstrata Plc for Dec. 1 to Dec. 5 delivery to Greece,
according to two people who participate in the market.

OAO Rosneft sold three Urals cargoes to Vitol Group in a
tender, according to three traders who participate in the
market, asking not to be identified because the information is
confidential. Two of the lots for loading Nov. 23 to Nov. 24 and
Nov. 27 to Nov. 28 from the Baltic port of Ust-Luga were
originally unallocated positions that were later filled by
Rosneft. The third shipment, for loading from Primorsk on Nov.
24 to Nov. 25, was added to the program.

Iraq resumed pumping to the Turkish port of Ceyhan at 12
p.m. local time, according to Boutros Maritime & Transport SA.
About 250,000 barrels were available for loading when output was
halted this morning at 6 a.m., the port agent said.

A vessel will pick up at least 600,000 barrels of crude
from Libya’s eastern terminal of Hariga tomorrow, for shipment
to a European destination, Mohamed Elharari, a spokesman for the
state-run National Oil Corp. said today by phone from Tripoli,
without elaborating on the tanker’s name or its charterer.
Shiptracking data on Bloomberg show that the British Falcon is
headed to Hariga, after being moored at another Libyan port,
Zawiya, from Oct. 27 to Nov. 9.

A Libyan militia leader in the oil-rich east unilaterally
announced the creation of the region’s oil company, underscoring
the growing lawlessness eroding the central government’s
authority.

Ibrahim Al Jedran, a former head of the Petroleum
Facilities Guard’s eastern command, said the new Libyan
Corporation for Oil and Gas will handle production and sale of
crude and gas in the east, which he proclaimed as semi-autonomous under his leadership.